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| Biofuels, land rights and community-investor partnerships - Good practices and preliminary lessons learned in selected case studies in India, Thailand and Viet Nam Over the past years, there has been a rapid expansion of biofuel development in many Asian countries. A number of governments are promoting biofuel programmes, mainly to achieve energy security, meet the increasing demand for... |
Oct 2010 |
| A decision support tool for sustainable bioenergy – An overview Whether or not bioenergy can deliver on the objectives without creating new and additional pressures depends largely on the existence of a robust and inclusive national planning process and project design and management.Bioenergy... |
Sep 2010 |
| Impacts of liquid biofuels on ecosystem services and biodiversity Ecosystem services are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. Biofuels can provide a number of ecosystem services (e.g. fuel, climate regulation) but also compromise other ecosystem services (e.g. food, freshwater services)... |
Sep 2010 |
| Algal biorefinery-based industry: an approach to address fuel and food insecurity for a carbon-smart world Food and fuel production are intricately interconnected. In a carbon-smart society, it is imperative to produce both food and fuel sustainably. Integration of the emerging biorefinery concept with other industries can bring many... |
2010 |
| Advanced biofuel technologies - Status and barriers Large-scale production of crop based (first generation) biofuels may not be feasible without adversely affecting global food supply or encroaching on other important land uses. Because alternatives to liquid fossil fuels are... |
Sep 2010 |
| Beyond the talk: engaging stakeholders in bioenergy development – Bioenergy Issue Paper Series No.4 Ensuring that benefits of bioenergy development materialise and risks are mitigated requires robust policies and processes. Designing these policies and processes with a multi-stakeholder approach helps identify and address the... |
Sep 2010 |
| Biofuels: a new methodology to estimate GHG emissions from global land use change - A methodology involving spatial allocation of agricultural land demand and estimation of CO2 and N2O emissions This study implements a new methodology developed by the JRC IES and IE for estimating changes in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from soil and above- and below-ground biomass resulting from global land use changes caused by the... |
Sep 2010 |
| Energy poverty - How to make modern energy access universal? Lack of access to modern energy services is a serious hindrance to economic and social development and must be overcome if the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are to be achieved. This report - which presents the results of... |
Sep 2010 |
| Criteria and indicators for sustainable woodfuels Wood energy is the dominant source of energy for over 2 billion people, particularly in households in developing countries. Biofuels, especially fuelwood and charcoal, currently provide more than 14 percent of the world’s total... |
Sep 2010 |
| Unravelling the ‘land grab’ - How to protect the livelihoods of the poor? Land grabbing is a broad term, which in the current debates refers to the large-scale acquisition of land in developing countries by (foreign) companies or governments. These acquisitions have the positive potential to inject... |
Sep 2010 |
